Nepal on Rails

Cache sweeper in Rails3.1, if not using ActiveRecord!

If you’re using Rails 3.1 but without ActiveRecord, then you cannot use the the expire_page, expire_action and expire_fragment in your controller. This might happen if you use ODMs such as Mongoid. The app that I’m working on uses Mongoid.

So, the work-around is to add a Mongoid::Observer and expire those caches by creating an instance of the ActionController::Base and call those methods on that object.

class LineObserver < Mongoid::Observer
 observe :line

 def after_save(line)
   expire_cache(line)
 end

 def after_destroy(line)
   expire_cache(line)
 end

 private
   def expire_cache(line)
     @cont ||= ActionController::Base.new
     @cont.expire_fragment "department_lines" if line.public?
   end
end

Hope this saves someone’s time.